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Dec 28 2023
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Rep. Lucy McBath to switch districts due to Georgia redistricting
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) announced Thursday that she will pursue election in Georgia’s 6th District in 2024 after a federal judge approved a GOP-led redistricting plan, which changed her current 7th District seat to favor Republicans. The Atlanta congresswoman promised to continue a legal fight against the new district maps but vowed to run in the 6th District if the current maps stand. “I
The HillJan 28 2024
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Judge rejects court order blocking North Carolina Senate elections under accusations of racial gerrymandering
U.S. District Judge James Dever III denied a court order Friday that would have blocked elections from proceeding in two North Carolina Senate districts due to claims of racial gerrymandering. Plaintiffs Rodney Pierce and Moses Matthews argued that Districts 1 and 2 in the new map for the 2024 North Carolina elections were gerrymandered to reduce Black voters’ power, which violates Section 2
Duke ChronicleOct 19 2023
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Appeal of New Mexico gerrymandering verdict going before state Supreme Court
Republicans will have a chance to argue against New Mexico’s redistricting process in the state’s Supreme Court, as a hearing was set for the GOP’s appeal of a district court decision that upheld the redrawn maps. The GOP will argue its case in a hearing scheduled for Nov. 20, according to an order filed Tuesday. New Mexico’s congressional district map was redrawn in 2021 to account for
Carlsbad Current-ArgusNov 16 2023
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No more redistricting games: The Court of Appeals should follow its ruling from last year
Last year, the highest court in New York State, the Court of Appeals, heard the crucial redistricting case covering seats for Congress and state Senate on Tuesday, April 26, and issued their decision throwing out the maps drawn by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority the next day, Wednesday, April 27. Disappointed that their attempted extreme partisan gerrymander was foiled by judges
New York Daily NewsDec 11 2023
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Arkansas redistricting lawsuit petitions against court decision
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Advocacy groups filed a petition Monday to keep a lawsuit alive, arguing citizens have a right to sue the government under the Voting Rights Act to prevent discrimination. The NAACP and ACLU suit filed in December 2021 against the Arkansas Board of Apportionment alleges Arkansas’s new redistricting maps for elections disproportionately represent black voters with just 11
Fox16Dec 11 2023
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Arkansas redistricting lawsuit petitions against court decision
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Advocacy groups filed a petition Monday to keep a lawsuit alive, arguing citizens have a right to sue the government under the Voting Rights Act to prevent discrimination. The NAACP and ACLU suit filed in December 2021 against the Arkansas Board of Apportionment alleges Arkansas’s new redistricting maps for elections disproportionately represent black voters with just 11
KARKJan 30 2024
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoes Republicans’ redistricting proposal, calls maps ‘more of the same’
Wisconsin Watch is a nonprofit and nonpartisan newsroom. Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigative stories and Friday news roundup. This story is published in partnership with The Associated Press. Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday vetoed a redistricting proposal that the Republican-controlled Legislature passed last week in a last-ditch effort to avert the drawing of
Wisconsin WatchJan 23 2024
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State redistricting meeting in Detroit to redraw districts attracts few attendees ⋆ Michigan Advance
The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) on Monday kicked off a series of community meetings in Detroit with dismal in-person attendance. A lawsuit was filed in March 2022 by a group of Black metro Detroit voters. After federal judges ruled that the commission illegally used race in their mapping of multiple electoral districts, the body was ordered to revamp 13 state
Michigan AdvanceOct 06 2023
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A judge rules against a Republican challenge of a congressional redistricting map in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state judge ruled against a Republican Party challenge of new congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region, in an order published Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic state lawmakers in 2021 succeeded in substantially diluting votes of their
KNWAOct 13 2023
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Republicans plan to appeal verdict to uphold maps in New Mexico gerrymandering lawsuit
Republicans on Wednesday appealed a district judge’s verdict last week in the GOP’s gerrymandering lawsuit against Democrats, which sought to overturn redrawn congressional districts, seeking a hearing before the New Mexico Supreme Court. The redistricting process, which concluded in December 2021, was in response to population changes from the 2020 Census. It notably split portions of Eddy
Carlsbad Current-Argus